Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained:

A Twitter support staffer informed him that it was the last Tweet that did Adams in—for "posting an individual's private information." The address he posted was Zenkel's corporate address, which can easily be figured out by Googling how NBC makes its addresses.

Twitter's Olympics hub, part of a partnership between the San Francisco company and Comcast Corp.'s CMCSA +0.05% NBCUniversal that will be announced as early as Monday, is one of the first times Twitter will serve as an official narrator for a live event. NBC will tout the website with on-air promotions and links to athlete interviews or video clips.

Adams, quite rightly, was surprised by this. This is the email he wrote to Twitter's European PR head.

Hi Rachel

They've dealt with this (see below). Would you mind if I give you a quick call to discuss? I'm of course happy to abide by Twitter's rules, now and forever. But I don't see how I broke them in this case: I didn't publish a private email address. Just a corporate one, which is widely available to anyone with access to Google, and is identical to one that all of the tens of thousands of NBC Universal employees share.

It's no more "private" than the address I'm emailing you from right now.

Either way, quite worrying that NBC, whose parent company are an Olympic sponsor, are apparently trying (and, in this case, succeeding) in shutting down the Twitter accounts of journliasts who are critical of their Olympic coverage.

Am I to presume, for example, that they decided to complain about me because of my recent article in the Indy's news page about their various failures? (see link)

UPDATE, 2:59 p.m.: An NBC spokesman just told Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch that they filed the initial complaint against Adams. Here's the statement:

We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives. According to Twitter, this is a violation of their privacy policy. Twitter alone levies discipline.